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What attendance would constitute a good showing on Saturday?

Viet Vet said:
No way there were 37,000 tickets sold, or people in the stands at any given time. BUT, the TV panorama of the stands was encouraging. However, the TV announcers never shut up, and the director(s) could not relieve themselves of the desire to show crowd shots, replays, and Joe Zone during actual play. Almost as bad as basketball TV shots of the crowd, parents, cheerleaders while the ball is in play.

May we PLEASE watch the game!
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It is on radio
 
For the record, Pitt reported 50k for a game against fellow NEC member Duquesne today.

Again, it isn't the opponent, weather, or day/time - UConn is never going to draw what other major college football programs do - it just isn't in Connecticut's DNA.
 
CCSU97 said:
For the record, Pitt reported 50k for a game against fellow NEC member Duquesne today.

Again, it isn't the opponent, weather, or day/time - UConn is never going to draw what other major college football programs do - it just isn't in Connecticut's DNA.
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We’re front runners. We pile up championships in other sports. When our football program is winning and playing in a legit conference again, the Rent will be full. You won’t see the more casual fans show up consistently until then. They expect bigger games, that’s what they are used to within our athletic department. I know it’s the reason. I ask friends to go and they ask who we’re playing. When I tell them we’re getting better, they take a very cautious approach. They are guys that will believe it when they see it and they will go back. They were there every week when we were in the Big East. Right now they are content to golf, gamble on football games, go to a pro game etc. A so so team playing nobodies doesn’t do it for them. They just aren’t hardcore fans.

As far as Pitt goes, people forget that Western Pa was a football hotbed for generations. That reputation has slipped some as the south has taken over football. Football fandom runs really deep in Western PA. I’m not surprised they pulled that many. At the same time, you see schools like Wake and others with nobody in the stands. We had a good showing today with a nice crowd. The other fans will be back. Let’s worry about our D Line for now. That’s the more pressing matter.
 
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It’s really hard to pinpoint how many are in the building at the Rent. There’s so many beer stands, bars, merch stands and of course, there’s shade in the concourse. The concourse is always loaded with people.
 
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CCSU97 said:
For the record, Pitt reported 50k for a game against fellow NEC member Duquesne today.

Again, it isn't the opponent, weather, or day/time - UConn is never going to draw what other major college football programs do - it just isn't in Connecticut's DNA.
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Spot on. We complain about the Labor Day weekend, but other teams are getting big turnouts during the same time. Coming off a successful season and a bowl win, there shouldn't be concern about attendance, but that is still an issue for us as we cleanse off the filth of prior years.

As for the production crew showing Joe Zone during gameplay, I was thinking, "why the frack do they keep putting Dean Wormer on?!!?"
 
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from section 230 half way through 1st quater
 
ZooCougar said:
Why would they so deliberately misrepresent that number?
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Because that is standard practice in the industry? I have no problem with the puffed up, announced attendance, which leads to a puffed up average attendance figure. It's a way to make the team seem as if they have more appeal and virtually every other team does it so it creates an apples to apples comparison.
 
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Being there, the attendance number looked pretty damn accurate to me. Keep in mind you do have people stand and watch the game near the score board too. I didn't see a single empty seat in the lower bowl area. I was in section 216, I like to sit up high to get a good view of the field and also have my space. The casuals left midway through the 3rd, given the holiday weekend and the score and really emptied out in the 4th.

Great to see the student section full, if it's true that the bus left early to bring the students back then that's unacceptable. It's not fair to the band who obviously has to be there until the end having them next to an empty student section is wrong.

All in all it was a good crowd, in the 2nd half the casuals started to lose their focus a little. Mora is no fool he didn't Edsall the 2nd half with the backups and 3rd stringers. Meaning he ran uptempo and didn't bore the crowd. Winning games and scoring pts is gonna draw the casuals.
 
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CL82 said:
Because that is standard practice in the industry? I have no problem with the puffed up, announced attendance, which leads to a puffed up average attendance figure. It's a way to make the team seem as if they have more appeal and virtually every other team does it so it creates an apples to apples comparison.
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The number may seem a little inflated but the showing was better most were expecting. I don’t think we can assume UConn’s numbers are inflated and others are legit.
 
CL82 said:
Because that is standard practice in the industry? I have no problem with the puffed up, announced attendance, which leads to a puffed up average attendance figure. It's a way to make the team seem as if they have more appeal and virtually every other team does it so it creates an apples to apples comparison.
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Exactly. We should’ve started exaggerating numbers years ago. Even in the lean years when we got 15k or so I was always puzzled why we wouldn’t just announce 20 or 25. No one is calling you out on it and attendance has always been something outsiders rag on UConn for.
 
Crowd size was great. normally I show up 2 hours before kick, have. a couple drinks and a sandwich in the lots and head in. I am normally in one of the blue lots next to the stadium and probably 12-15 rows back. Never near the fence line. I showed up normal time today and had to park in one of the blue lots on the opposite side of the road closer towards the traffic light side of things. Was pleasantly surprised. People showed up and were having fun.
 
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Scoe said:
Being there, the attendance number looked pretty damn accurate to me. Keep in mind you do have people stand and watch the game near the score board too. I didn't see a single empty seat in the lower bowl area. I was in section 216, I like to sit up high to get a good view of the field and also have my space. The casuals left midway through the 3rd, given the holiday weekend and the score and really emptied out in the 4th.

Great to see the student section full, if it's true that the bus left early to bring the students back then that's unacceptable. It's not fair to the band who obviously has to be there until the end having them near next to an empty student section is wrong.

All in all it was a good crowd, in the 2nd half the casuals started to lose their focus a little. Mora is no fool he didn't Edsall the 2nd half with the backups and 3rd stringers. Meaning he ran uptempo and didn't bore the crowd. Winning games and scoring pts is gonna draw the casuals.
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Totally agree with your attendance assessment. Many fans watch the game standing to get out of the sun etc. And seeing not only seeing student section full but the section above the student section full is telling. Have not seen that in a long time. The only open seats were in the upper corners and then the blue seats across the way had empty seats.

Our assessment in my group was 36k. Was similar crowd to NC State. Not understanding those who say it was near 30.

Based on this performance (most team
Offensive yards in the FBS era) and dominant performance, I don’t see any reason why we don’t build on this 35k number.
 
Scoe said:
Great to see the student section full, if it's true that the bus left early to bring the students back then that's unacceptable. It's not fair to the band who obviously has to be there until the end having them near next to an empty student section is wrong.
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Pretty sure that the first available buses heading back to campus start @ the end of the third quarter w/ the remainder leaving up up to 30 minutes after the end of the game.
 
CL82 said:
Because that is standard practice in the industry? I have no problem with the puffed up, announced attendance, which leads to a puffed up average attendance figure. It's a way to make the team seem as if they have more appeal and virtually every other team does it so it creates an apples to apples comparison.
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I mean Storrs Central. UConn said tickets distributed and they chose to embellish.

I guess in this era where facts and truth don’t matter we might as well make it all up.
 
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Waquoit said:
The pricing model was never right. Big Lew screwed the pooch from the start.
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How so? I always think of Hathaway as being the guy who totally killed the incredible momentum we were having at least on the basketball site, both men and women. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't remember it.
 
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My kid had soccer games until 1. We parked around 1:55, got into the stadium around 2:10.

Glad 3 of the 5 home games left are at 3:30.
 
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